Lah vs. Lax — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lah and Lax
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Lah
(music) la
Lax
Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful
Lax security arrangements at the airport
He'd been a bit lax about discipline in school lately
Lah
The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization
Lax
(of the limbs or muscles) relaxed
Muscles have more potential energy when they are stretched than when they are lax
Lax
Lacrosse
I wore pads and a helmet whenever I played lax
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Lax
Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness.
Lax
Not taut, firm, or compact; slack.
Lax
Loose and not easily retained or controlled. Used of bowel movements.
Lax
(Linguistics) Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed, as the vowel (ĕ) in let.
Lax
A salmon.
Lax
Lacrosse.
Lax
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
Lax
Loose; not tight or taut.
The rope fell lax.
Lax
Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
Lax
(mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
Lax
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
Lax
Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy.
Lax
Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
The discipline was lax.
Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.
The word "æternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification.
Lax
Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
Lax
A looseness; diarrhea.
Lax
Lacking in rigor or strictness;
Such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable
Lax in attending classes
Slack in maintaining discipline
Lax
Pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
Lax
Not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight;
A lax rope
Lax
Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience;
Flaccid muscles
Took his lax hand in hers
Gave a limp handshake
A limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know
A slack grip
Lax
Tolerant or lenient;
Indulgent parents risk spoiling their children
Procedures are lax and discipline is weak
Too soft on the children
Lax
Emptying easily or excessively;
Loose bowels
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